K-Pop Isn't Just All About The Music

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Hey

Hey I know I abonded this blog big time, I got very busy with some personal problems but I promise you guys I'll get active on this blog from now on, anyways I'm looking for Admins I'm going to need some help reviewing and such because I don't think I'll be able to do it solo y'all, so if anyone intrested send me a message and we'll see if we click? Thank you~!

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The rookie group NU'EST returns with their new single Hello!

Members:

JR

Aron

Minhun

Ren

Baekho

Fanclub name-  L.O.Λ.E (love)

Lyrics- 19/20

The boys of NU'EST despair over their girlfriend, who they find to be cheating on them. They call her up, intending to ask her directly, but, not wanting to lose her, pretend there is nothing wrong and instead ask her if she's eaten, if she'll be home soon, etc. All the while, they think about her being with someone else, and the pain it's causing them. An ambitious topic for a rookie group, perhaps, because they are so young, but nonetheless they portrayed the lyrics well (though Aron's line Tell me baby where you at? was almost too cheesy for me to handle). They must have made good use of their native English speaker, unlike some companies I would mention. *cough* SM are you getting this? *cough* 

Rhythm- 9/10

This song is slow and contemplative, fitting the lyrics. The transition to JR's rap didn't interrupt the flow of the song, and overall it fit their voices quite nicely. 

MV- 15/15

I absolutely loved this music video. The snowy background with the street lamps perfectly fit the theme of the song, and the boys looked so natural with the female actress. The kiss was more realistic than any I've seen in a kpop music video! It was a risky move, considering their short time on the scene, but they showed great maturity. The kiss was important to me, because even their seniors have never done a kiss that was more then a weird bumping of lips that was awkward for everyone. This kiss was passionate, fitting the strong emotions portrayed in the song.

The choreography was awesome, to say the least. Less of flashy moves, more of a storytelling. At 0:54 when Aron's chair is pulled away, along with him, from the table at which he sits with the female protagonist, it perfectly fits the lyrics of the song as they describe the feeling of the girl slipping away from them. At 1:37 we see the first use of the hanging motion with their ties, also fitting the lyrics with their sense of desperation and pain. The clothes were all in muted colors, standing out against the white background but keeping it subdued. I loved Ren's hair with the cape he was wearing, the high collar adding to his dramatic look.

And while this video did use only one actress for all of the boy's love interests, that actually fit the song as well. They all see her with the other members of the band, and though it's highly unrealistic to think that this girl could creak around with five separate guys, it at least added to the drama of the situation, and the theme of cheating and betrayal. 

Overall Score- 43/45

Personal Thoughts-

NU'EST has intrigued me since their debut, promoting themselves as a group singing for teens. Though nobody, (including them, probably), is really sure what "urban electro" means, I'm sure they'll come into their own soon, if "Hello" and "Face" are any indication. I look forward to seeing NU'EST grow as singers and performers, and I see good things for them in the future. NU'EST fighting!

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Dream Girl- SHINee

SHINee serenade's their dream girl in their greatly anticipated comeback, aptly named Dream Girl!

Lyrics- 18/20

This song is about SHINee singing to their ideal girl, beautiful and elusive, as she haunts their dreams. It's a fairly straightforward, poppy love song. Points have been taken off for lack of deeper meaning, but the lyrics make sense and are quite sweet.

Rhythm- 10/10

Dream Girl has a fun, upbeat sound, almost reminiscent of older music. Minho's rap didn't interrupt the flow of the song, unlike many kpop sings nowadays which seem to throw in a rap just because everyone else is doing it. This song managed to stray from any previous sound SHINee has done, mixing old-school with electronic elements that I absolutely loved.

MV- 11/15

The majority of the music video had nothing to do with the song, most of it being a traditional music video in the there were lots of close-ups on their faces and such. In keeping with the SHINee style, the dance was complicated and fun to watch, though it mostly had nothing to of with the song either. Of course, there were the scenes in the video that showed each member dreaming and waking up. Being thrown around a black and white spirally room and landing on their beds, which is as close as they got to relating to the lyrics. I liked the choreography, and I really want to see behind the scenes footage of them endlessly dropping the mic stands because come on, who doesn't want that?

The clothes were particularly interesting. If you pause at 1:07 you get a good look at Taemin's outfit to find that he is wearing pencil pants! His shirt is pink, like the eraser, green stripes on the thighs of his yellow pants suggest the metal holding the eraser on, and the bottom of his pant look like a sharpened pencil. We see Key and Jonghyun wearing floral pants, which they of course made look fabulous. Minho's outfit I wasn't really sure about. Cheetah pants with a blue jacket and a striped tie? Really? The SM stylists have been pushing the unique and crazy clothes on f(x) and SHINee lately, with interesting results. f(x) usually gets bright colors and strange accessories (all of which I LOVE) but SHINee seems to be getting a lot of conflicting patterns that almost work, but not quite. The boys look fabulous, but if you break their outfits down piece by piece, it gets a little shaky. 

Overall score- 39/45

Personal Thoughts-

SHINee has always impressed me with their incredible dances and vocal talent, and this was no exception. I was so looking forward to this comeback, and the album was a home run. I'm so excited to hear the second part, and I expect nothing less than the best. Onew and Jonghyun sound incredible, as always. Taemin, I think, has really grown into his voice, and I'm impressed by how much he's grown as a singer. I was happy to hear that Minho and Key collaborated for the writing of the raps on the album. Remember to support SHINee and buy the physical album, or the digital one on iTunes. SHINee fighting!

What are your thoughts on this song? Did it make you a SHINee fan, or solidify your love? And how about those pencil pants because seriously I freaking loved that outfit.

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Dolls- Nine Muses

Hello everyone! Admin C here with my first review. Hope you enjoy!

For those who don't know, here are the members:

0:27 Hyuna 

0:34 Sungah 

0:45 Minha 

0:50 Sera 

1:05 Kyungri 

1:16 Hyemi

1:37 Sam 

2:23 Euaerin 

2:32 Eunji 

Lyrics- 18/20

Lets start with the basics. This song talks about the girls exes and the pain they feel after their breakup, as well as how stupid they feel about not knowing they would get their hearts broken. They are despairing over the fact that they can't get over their ex-boyfriends. I was impressed with the English pronunciation-near perfect! And unlike many k-pop songs nowadays, the English lyrics actually make sense where they are placed, in contrast to the many k-pop songs that build the songs around the English and lose the meaning of the Korean lyrics. 

Rhythm- 4/10

I loved the old-timey horns throughout the song, and the jazzy music was great. But while the lyrics all fit perfectly with the beat of the song, and speaking as someone who does not speak Korean, I felt that the upbeat style of the song didn't exactly fit with the lyrics. The lyrics of the song talk about pain and heartbreak, but since I don't speak Korean, I had no idea what the song was actually about. Perhaps my experience would have been changed if I did speak Korean, but since I don't the style was just a bit...off.

MV- 12/15

I loved this music video. I loved the sets and the outfits, and the sexy style of the dance! As far as the music video in relation to the song...at 0:54 when they are in the pink room with the frilly dresses, that was as close as they got to the doll theme. The other parts of the music video were just dancing. I  loved the dance as well, but there were no specific moves relating to the song. I liked the shots from 2:22-2:28 with the close ups of the girls faces in the blue room-but the shot at 2:30 of Euaerin with her hand between her legs was a little awkward. Also I'm not quite sure what the point was of the room with all the mirrors? This dance was more sexy than what Nine Muses has done in the past, and I thought they did great. Overall it didn't relate much to the song but it was fun to watch, and I definitely want to learn the dance!

Overall score- 34/45

Personal Thoughts- 

The more I hear of Nine Muses, the more I love them.  They were gorgeous in the MV, and they sounded awesome. I love the jazzy feel of the song, and the different outfits used throughout the video. I was so excited for this comeback and I was definitely not disappointed! What are your thoughts on Nine Muses?

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Annyeong~ We are a kpop facebook based roleplay. We’re looking for new members to join our growing family. Could you please promote us to your followers? Thank you and all the best with your blog <3

Neh~ I'll add a link of your blog on to here! Thank you and all the best with your blog as well.

`Admin Rocky

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Okay you guys my computer is fixed so to the two scenarios blogs that are supposed to be reviewed by muah I shall have them up my Saturday, I'm going to start reading one of the blogs today and probably have their review done by tomorrow. So HWAITING on that!

- Admin Rocky

(It's 55 degress in my room! I'm freezing)

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Sorry for not reviewing anything, I haven't had acess to a computer in a couple days, but I have next week off so I'll be reviewing two scenario blogs and two rookie girl grouos. -Admin Rocky

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translation blog

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  All groups

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I read draming-melodys blog, and i loved her scenarios! haha, but i agree with your review, it was really acurate and with those tips shell improve a lot if she takes them! this blogs a really good idea!

She's good right? I spent a couple hours on that review making sure it was as accurate as possible, and I made sure to give her good advice in what she should work on so she'll be even better then she is now!

I worked really hard on the concept for this blog, to y'all this blog is new, but to me it isn't since I've been working on it's concept for over three weeks. But in the end I guess it really is worth it.

`- Admin Rocky

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Hey it's daydreams92695, do you mind doing a review of my blog? Kamsamida! ^_^

Unnie! No, not at all your will actually be pretty easy since I've read almost all of the scenarios there! But I'll do yours tomorrow since it's late and I have a science exam tomorrow, that I just remembered.

~Rocly

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Review for Daydreams-Melody

Review for Daydreams-Melody

Right of the bat, I would recommend you change your theme so reading could be a lot easier. Your theme is nice, but it doesn’t properly space paragraphs so everything looks mushed up and it’s quite difficult to read.

This is what I wrote after I read: “Risk It {Rating: K}”

Now off to your writing: you’re good. I really liked your writing, you really go with flow of things and that’s good because it doesn’t seem fake but it makes it look like something that you could imagine, though you have a couple grammar mistakes.

Example:

But he never would choose … the girl in sneakers, t-shirt and that is in a band, all boys prefer girls in high heels, with elegantly proportioned bodies in a super feminine beautiful dress that is from some well known brand that all other girls envied, with her hair perfectly aligned without even a strand out of place, perfect makeup and long manicured nails….

Another way of writing this without making any grammatical mistakes would be:

But he would never choose the girl in the sneakers, t-shirts, and that’s in the band. All the boys prefer girls in high heels, with perfect proportioned bodies, and in feminine dresses that’s from some well known brand that all the other girls envy, with her hair perfectly made without a strand out of place, perfect make-up, and manicured nails.

You have pretty minor mistakes that can be easily read through, but sometimes it’s really confusing. I noticed you overly use ellipsis (…), and that’s actually really bad, because you should only use ellipsis when your characters are wondering something or when they’re trailing off in a sentence. You tend to overuse them at un-necessary points in a paragraph or a sentence.

Other then your other grammatical mistakes are: “do not” “could not” “will not” “can not” “that is” “I am”, instead of using all of those you can use “don’t” “couldn’t” “won’t” “can’t” “that’s” “I’m”. Because a lot of times reading cannot, do not, could not, I am, really interrupts with the flow of the story and sometimes it makes reading scenarios, stories, chapters, etc… rather awkward.

After reading: “Without you. {Rated: M}”

First thing:  I wouldn’t consider this rated ‘M’, I would say it’s more T+, if it were more detailed and a lot more bloody then I would rate ‘M’, but since it involves suicide and deaths I would say ‘T+’.

You really had the same mistakes in this one that you had in your last scenario, but you used less ellipsis then last time, and that was good.

One thing I noted; was that you didn’t exactly say why or how the ‘you’ character died. That was lack of thinking the scenario out, which is a rookie mistake, but it’s passible.

And by written the scenario in 1st POV (I)  but adding 2nd POV (You), it made kind of confusing because when you started using ‘I’ I thought that that was the female character, and when you used ‘You’ I got pretty confused until a doctor came  out. You really should explain that in the Author Note at the beginning of the scenario.

Other then I just found minor grammatical mistakes, such as “I look at you for the last time on that hospital room” instead of using ‘on’ it should be ‘in’ “I look at you for the last time in that hospital room”. Other then you really should look out with word placements, any little word that’s misplaced can throw off a whole paragraph.

Other then word placement and grammar, I didn’t find anything else, but this scenario was really good, I liked it a lot.

After reading: “One Night Ride” {Rated; “MA”}

Like last time the rating on this one was also off, this is smut, it’s not intense smut so this was actually meant to be rated “M”.

I’ll be straight I’m not really al that keen on reading smut, since I’m as pure as they come, so I’m really just gonna pick on your sentence on this one, really show you were your grammatical mistakes are.

Instead of; “I have waited to found you.” It should have been; “I’ve been waiting to find you”.  

Instead of; “trying to keep my composure I broke the visual contact with him looking back to the window.” It should have been:  “trying to keep my composure I broke eye contact with him by looking back at the window.”  

Instead of “I realized that he was different from everyone else and unintentionally blurted out of my mouth, my conclusion.”  It should have been: “I realize that he was different from anyone else, and I unintentionally blurted out my realization.”

Instead of; “The kiss was so intense that it made me almost faint, if he hadn’t separated our mouths in time.”  It should have been: “The kiss was so intense I almost fainted, if he hadn’t broken it in time.”

On a small note before I continue ‘vaginal fluids’ isn’t really a word, the correct word you were looking for is ‘cum’. And also there was really one word I couldn’t comprehend what is exactly is ‘clitoris’? I think that could be a word, but definitively not one I’ve ever heard of before.

Here those were just about all the grammar mistakes. The vampire thing, a little clichéd, but some people somehow really liked that, personally I really don’t get it but hell a lot of people are in to that kinky shit. So I have to say: cutouts to you on that part.

I can’t really tell you if the smut itself was good, because I don’t read smut, I follow some blogs that write but I don’t read them because I’m not all that comfortable with it so in a way I kind skimmed through the smut, but all the details before and after I read thoroughly so I have to apologized to you on that.

Okay now I’m just going to generalize everything because the few mistakes you make are repetitive.

You’re going to be an amazing writer, you’re really good right now, and you’re on a really good track. What you need to is really work on your grammar and your contractions (can’t, don’t, won’t, shouldn't, I’m, you’re,  we've, you’ve, he’s, she’s etc…). You also tend to repeat words a lot.

So I would recommend for you: get a thesaurus, grammar book, and a dictionary. I also recommend using ‘Microsoft Office’ if you don’t want to buy it go on to skydrive.com on that website you can use word, open, note and other Microsoft programs for free.  

For a none native English speaker (even though I’m no a native speaker myself) if I have to say your spelling is impressive, you have big words down and you also have little words down too, sometimes you don’t place comma’s (,) where they should go but you don’t overuse them like some people. Also check on your punctuation, and don’t go crazy on the ellipsis.

I can tell you’ve been writing for a while now, not English but in your main tongue. Your writing is extensive and detailed. Usually when most writer start out their writing is choppy, very short, and not all that well thought out, but you can tell whose going to be an amazing writer and whose going to be well… They’ll have another talent lying around, but writing isn’t it.

Anyways back to you: with writing you either got it, or you don’t.  You got it, you really just need to go hard on your grammar, because that’s your only real mistake, once you improve your grammar, you’ll be an amazing writer. Another tip: read a lot.

Now for the final score: (first how I’ll get to score)

Grammar

Spelling

Punctuation

Flow – If you can read it without having to stop at an awkward moment

Easy to read – this has to do with your theme, because some thing mush things up or the font is really small and it’s hard to read

Characterization – if the characters are acting similar to the way they really act

Creativity –

Enjoyable – when I read scenario or anything I want to enjoy myself, and I usually know if I am going to enjoy myself by the first paragraph

In total its 8O points

Your score:

Grammar: 5 – 1O (You need to work a lot on this)

Spelling: 1O – 1O

Punctuation: 7 – 1O (Those ellipsis really killed you on this one)

Flow: 8 – 1O (If it weren’t for your grammar you would’ve gotten a 1O – 1O)

Easy to read: 6 – 1O (Your theme’s font is really small and it mushes everything together, so it makes it really hard to read)

Characterization: 9 – 1O (You write Optional Bias, that’s really hard because you have to keep him pretty vague and you did just that. And you did it perfectly, but you really fell out with the ‘you’ character)

Creativity: 9 – 1O (You’re really creative at times, but on other you really fall down sometimes)

Enjoyable: 8 – 1O

62 out of 8O

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Scenario Blog Application

• Scenario Blog Link:http://daydreaming-melodies.tumblr.com/ • Groups You Write For: Optional bias only • Paring: YouxBias • Rated or not:Rated and some aren't

Could you please review my all blog scenarios until now please? Thank you in advance :D (your blog link is in the directories)

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Thank you for applying and I'll add you right now. As for reviewing, I'm about to put up a scenario in my own blog, but after that I will headover to yours! 

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EXO, BAP, BIGBANG, NU'EST, VIXX (they'll be in the next batch of scenarios, since I recently decided to start writing about hem), Optional Bias, TEENTOP,  and Block B 

None-rated

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who does one become an affliate?

Leave me a message in my ask.

Admin - Rocky

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In very basic worrd, what this blog about/

In basic words? Promoting and reviewing. We review here, scenario blogs and kpop idols comebacks and debuts, and because we due this we end promoting them as well.

This blog helps people find new kpop groups, and new scenario blogs.

And because when we start getting scenario blogs to review will be helping them out with the grammar and other things.

That's just about it.

Admin - Rocky

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review independent woman from miss a!

Will do that. I liked this comeback it was rather good.

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can you do a review on block b latest comeback?

I was actually going to this one next! So yes dear anon, I can review it